Gluten Free Bread

Gluten free bread in your bread machine.

My daughter woke up at 5am this morning to go fishing.  She opened the Hamilton Beach HomeBaker and took out the gluten free bread.  She sliced enough for toast for breakfast and sandwiches for later.  When I woke up later, I had enough for 4 slices of gluten free bread for breakfast.  Now I am making more!

I just 5 minutes ago told my husband that we need another Hamilton Beach HomeBaker.  I already have one that I bought from Amazon.  Why would I want another?  The gluten free bread recipe that you are about to read will rival any gluten free bread that you will ever eat.  

This gluten free bread is so wonderful that my kids want me to make it and sell it at a farmers markets. I don’t want my family to stop eating it, but… I cannot keep it around.  

If the aroma makes its way around the house, I have smiling faces waiting till I remove the pan from the Hamilton Beach HomeBaker.  The gluten free bread is always gone in one sitting, and I don’t think I can make a loaf large enough to satisfy them.  I just need another machine!

Gluten free bread in a bread machine

I have a Hamilton Beach Programmable Bread Machine Bread Maker, and it is a machine I never put away.

Ingredients

3 cups plus 3 Tbsp gluten free flour (see Momsypoos experience below)
3 Tbsps sugar
1 ¼ tsp salt
1 ¼ tsp xanthan gum
1 package or 2 tsp yeast
4 eggs
½ stick butter (not margarine)
1 cup milk warm

STEP – 1
Measure the gluten free flour, sugar, salt, and xanthan gum into a large bowl and mix well.

STEP – 2
Take out a small saucepan. Melt butter but do not brown.  Watch carefully.  When butter is ¾ melted remove from eat and swirl so the butter continues to melt without heating it to hot.

STEP – 3
When butter is melted,  add the milk to the saucepan.  I find that the warm butter brings the milk to a really workable temperature.

STEP – 4
Crack eggs into a separate bowl.  Scramble slightly.

STEP – 5
When milk is warm but not hot, Stir eggs into milk. Now you have melted the butter, warmed the milk, and added the eggs so you have all the wet ingredients together.  If the milk is too hot, it cooks your eggs! Good job!

STEP – 6
Pour the wet ingredients into the machine’s bread pan.
Pour the gluten free flour mix on top of the wet ingredients.

STEP – 7
I don’t really mix the ingredients here.  I just make sure that the flour is wet.  I find, that if I don’t, the machine will have a bit of unmixed flour on the sides.  When the machine turns on to bake the unmixed flour makes a hard crust.  To avoid this I mix the wet and dry and scrape the sides until it looks like a lumpy batter.

Momsypoo’s experience with gluten free bread.

I was online looking for gluten free bread recipes, and if you know me, you will know that I want food that is delicious and easy.  I do not believe in reinventing the wheel.  If a recipe takes too many strange ingredients or too many steps, it gets set aside.

I saw a gluten free recipe on King Arthur Gluten Free Flour site. My problem was that I didn’t have any King Arthur Gluten Free Flour on hand

I looked in my supplies and found Pamela’s Gluten Free Bread Mix. I thought that I would substitute the Pamela’s Gluten Free Bread Mix and hope for the best. You see, I have never made gluten free bread in my life.  I have tried so many different gluten free breads, but to make it… scared me!

I took the recipe from King Arthur’s Site and modified it to a bread machine.  I needed to add more eggs and a bit more flour.  I have already made those adjustments for you above.

I set my machine and let it go.  I had no idea if I would remove a chalky mess or a lump of hard sand. You see, I have tried many gluten free breads, and they tend to be gritty.

When the aroma caught my daughter’s attention, she was immediately in the kitchen.  She wanted to be first in line.  With the wonderful smells, she didn’t really care how gritty it might turn out. The machine beeped and my daughter flew to the counter.  She hasn’t had a delicious piece of hot bread in years. No one was getting between her and this loaf!

I cut the hot gluten free bread and had a new butter dish ready to be used.  My daughter snarfed down 5, FIVE, pieces before she could stop herself.  The Pamela’s Gluten Free Bread Mix made the most delicious, hearty, savory, wonderful gluten free bread.  The loaf was gone in under 1/2 hour.

It is such a delicious bread that I have now made it many times.  Pamela’s is a recipe I make to soak up a great bowl of chili or homemade soup.  The bread is great by itself or with just butter.

As soon as my HomeBaker was cool enough to start a new batch of bread, I tried the same recipe with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1 to 1 Flour.  I didn’t change a thing in the recipe.  It is the one from above.

Again, I guess you know who showed up for the official tasting of my new gluten free bread trials.  She was standing there making sure, that she had the first piece.

Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Flour is always my go to flour so I was very anxious to see how it would work  I didn’t use their bread mix. I used their gluten free flour.

WOW! Bob’s did it again.  The bread was chewy and soft.  That is not something one hears when they are speaking about gluten free bread.  Bob’s Red Mill made the most wonderful bread for sandwiches and toast.  When you eat it, you would think that I used a great sourdough starter, but I didn’t.  It has the chewy texture that we all think about when we eat sourdough bread in San Francisco.

It is now 9PM and the bread machine just beeped! Guess who is here for her first official taste of my King Arthur”s gluten free bread, round 1? Yes, it is she.  She had to have the first piece before running off to bed.

I have been waiting my 3+ hours for my bread machine to beep since coming home with my King Arthur Gluten Free Multipurpose Flour.  I have been waiting the official taste test and to get the results as to which gluten free flour was best.

The recipe came from the King Arthur site.  Now I have their official gluten free flour.  Here it is hot, a little bit of butter, and some raw honey. Oh My! That is wonderful.  A nice chewy, spongy, dense but so soft bread.  None of those adjectives would ever have been said about a typical piece of gluten free bread in the past.  This bread is delicious.

I cannot pick which gluten free recipe is best.  Pamela’s gives me a bread that I can use in all the ways I would use garlic bread or to just grab and go as a delicious snack. Bob’s Red Mill gives us a chance to once again enjoy a chewy piece of toast with jam or the best white bread sandwich.  King Arthur’s Gluten Free Flour gives a heavy, soft,  very flavorful bread that I will toast first thing in the morning.

Go try this recipe.  I know I have it separated into many steps, but I was trying to make it easy to understand for the people that haven’t tried to make bread before. I hope you don’t bypass this thinking its involved.  It is so easy that I actually have it memorized!

Send photos of your bread!
–Momsypoo–